Advances in Psychology and Law by Brian H. Bornstein & Monica K. Miller

Author:Brian H. Bornstein & Monica K. Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030110420
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Updated Judge’s Instructions Might Reduce Gender Bias

A potential avenue for future research is the examination of the effect of judge instructions to a jury to ignore victim gender in rendering a verdict judgment. Inadmissible evidence often influences juror judgments regardless of judge’s instructions to ignore such evidence (for meta-analysis, see Steblay, Hosch, Culhane, & McWethy, 2006). An empirical examination of the effectiveness of judge’s instructions related to gender could reveal new ways to write more effective instructions. If people who are made aware of their controlled and automatic biases are better able to correct for them (e.g., Pronin & Kugler, 2006), education on gender-related biases for judges and jurors might reduce differences in perceptions of and outcomes for legal actors who do not accommodate traditional gender roles (i.e., gender nonconforming victims or defendants). Updated and comprehensive jury instructions could reduce gender bias—but this hypothesis remains largely untested.

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